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Informationen zum Autor edited by Mark D. Steinberg, Heather J. Coleman Klappentext Sacred Stories brings together the work of leading scholars writing on the history of religion and religiosity in late imperial Russia during the critical decades preceding the 1917 revolutions. Embodying new research and new methodologies, this book reshapes our understanding of the place of religion in modern Russian history. Topics examined include miraculous icons and healing, pilgrim narratives, confessions, women and Orthodox domesticity, marriage and divorce, conversion and tolerance, Jewish folk beliefs, mysticism in Russian art, and philosophical aspects of Orthodox religious thought. Sacred Stories demonstrates that belief, spirituality, and the sacred were powerful and complex cultural expressions central to Russian political, social, economic, and cultural life. Contributors are Nicholas B. Breyfogle, Heather J. Coleman, Gregory L. Freeze, Nadieszda Kizenko, Alexei A. Kurbanovsky, Roy R. Robson, Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, Gabriella Safran, Vera Shevzov, Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Mark Steinberg, Paul Valliere, William G. Wagner, Paul W. Werth, and Christine D. Worobec. Zusammenfassung Examines religious narratives! beliefs! and practices in late Imperial Russia Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Rethinking Religion in Modern Russian Culture Mark D. Steinberg and Heather J. Coleman 1. Miraculous Healings Christine D. Worobec 2. Transforming Solovki: Pilgrim Narratives, Modernization, and Late Imperial Monastic LifeRoy R. Robson 3. Scripting the Gaze: Liturgy, Homilies, and the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Late Imperial RussiaVera Shevzov 4. Written Confessions and the Construction of Sacred NarrativeNadieszda Kizenko 5. "Orthodox Domesticity": Creating a Social Role for WomenWilliam G. Wagner 6. Profane Narratives about a Holy Sacrament: Marriage and Divorce in Late Imperial RussiaGregory L. Freeze 7. Arbiters of the Free Conscience: State, Religion, and the Problem of Confessional Transfer after 1905Paul W. Werth 8. Tales of Violence against Religious Dissidents in the Orthodox VillageHeather J. Coleman 9. Prayer and the Politics of Place: Molokan Church Building, Tsarist Law, and the Quest for a Public Sphere in Late Imperial RussiaNicholas B. Breyfogle 10. Divining the Secular in the Yiddish Popular PressSarah Abrevaya Stein 11. Revolutionary Rabbis: Hasidic Legend and the Hero of WordsGabriella Safran 12. "A Path of Thorns": The Spiritual Wounds and Wandering of Worker-PoetsMark D. Steinberg 13. A New Spirituality: The Confluence of Nietzsche and Orthodoxy in Russian Religious ThoughtBernice Glatzer Rosenthal 14. Malevich's Mystic Signs: From Iconoclasm to New TheologyAlexei Kurbanovsky 15. The Theology of Culture in Late Imperial RussiaPaul Valliere Further Reading List of Contributors Index ...
